They Shall Not Grow Old

 

Vintage Images - Apres Moi la Deluge (We Hope)

 

Image from The Graphics Fairy

We picked our first strawberry yesterday - and I can't post a photo, because I ate it. UPDATE: rabbits are eating the rest. Game on, you furry little bastards.

Caturday!

 

Their Grandpa Would Be So Proud

 (This exchange took place yesterday on a family FB Messenger chat).

First Nephew:  German beer is scheise.

Second Nephew:  I know your keyboard has the eszett.  C'mon, we insult properly in this family.

Quote Of The Day

 

Do not corner something that you know is meaner than you are. ~ Anonymous

Edited to add:  That reminds me, I'm spending next week with my sisters.

Grrrsday

 

Crochet - An Evening Wrap and Edging from 1890

 

From The Girl's Own Paper - A Garden of Gillyflowers, special publication for 1890.  Buy a length of cashmere and embroidery floss in the same shade.

Vintage Images - Emeralds For May

 

copyright-free image from The Graphics Fairy

For everyone whose birthday is this month.

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

 

copyright-free image from The Graphics Fairy

The hum of bees is the voice of the garden ~ Elizabeth Lawrence

Grrrsday

 

Other Crafts - A Sock Wardrobe for Dolls from 1947

 

Another item from the Woman's Day "Found Money" column, this one from January, 1947 showing how to help your little daughters make doll clothes out of mismatched socks.  Left-click to enlarge.

We Could Remember It But Let's Not

 

Today is Confederate Memorial Day in a couple of states below the Mason-Dixon line - as Ulysses S Grant wrote, "... that cause was, I believe, one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse."

Caturday!

 

Quote Of The Day

Oh, when I saw your eyes,

So  old it was, so new, the hushed surprise:

After a long, long search, it came to be,

Home folded me.

And looking up, I saw

The far, first stars like tapers to my awe,

In the dim hands of hid, benignant Powers,

At search long hours.

And did they hear us call,

That they have found us children after all?

And did you know, O Wonderful and Dear,

That I was here? ~ Josephine Preston Peabody

 

Grrrsday

 

Cave Canem

 

(well, he does have a mask)

In class today with the Little Man and the instructors were checking with a kennel club official to see if we could train without masks.  Had to be the first time in club history someone went around asking if the humans had all had their shots.

Children's Crafts - A Cat To Stitch

 

By way of the Detroit Public Library's Tumblr account, a punch-card from Scribner's, 1875.  Similar to the sunflower posted here two years ago, something to be used as an embroidery pattern, or for Mamma to prick out on a piece of cardboard and little fingers to follow with a needle and colored yarn.

The Orioles Are Due Back Any Day Now